2013年12月22日 星期日

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I am going to talk about the negative side of cohabitation.
Not mature enough
Many college students and even high school students once they are in the relationship, they cohabit with each other, even they don’t understand each other deeply. But they are still teenagers and they are impulsive. Their mind is not mature enough. So it is easily for them to do something regretful like pregnancy. And they don’t know how to resolve it and take the responsibility.
 Living habits
Living together means that you have to fit in each other's living habits. You and your mate come from different family, there must be many things which need to be adjusted and accommodated. Maybe your mate's bad habits make you intolerable. If you don’t learn to communicate and accept it, you will break up soon.
No more romance
Couples living together are easily getting bored. At first, couples might be content with this life style. Because they have much more time to get along with each other. They enjoy their own world without other people. But when time passes, their life will become exhausted. Every day you come home, you face the same person. You two having dinner, watching TV or do something else together. It becomes a routine. You are not excited when you see him. And the freshness of love will vanish.
    OK, let's watch a video. According to the video, we can know most parents are opposed their children to cohabit with their lovers. And the children who have the experience of cohabitation, they hide the truth and don't tell their parents. Because they think their parents are conventional and cannot accept the concept of cohabitation. But parents care about their kids. If you are parents, will you allow your children to cohabit with other people? I think it's no. 
  OK then cohabitation can decrease the desire of marriage and increase the rate of divorce.
  Why it decrease the desire of marriage?
  Cohabitation can make couples enjoy the happiness of marriage and don't be limited. They don't have to go through the responsibility in marriage. It will make people think that marriage is troublesome and not beneficial at all. So couples stop at this stage and make no progress. And what's more,women usually see cohabitation as a step toward marriage; but men don't think so. They only see it as a way to test a relationship and don't want to make commitment.
  And why cohabitation increase the rate of divorce?
   My resource is from Meg Jay. He is a clinic psychologist. And he wrote The Downside of Cohabiting Before Marriage. Many people agree cohabitation before marriage is because couples can know each other deeply and quickly. They believe that it is good for a relationship. However, the writer disagree the belief. One of his patients is Jennifer. She had been cohabiting with her boyfriend for more than 4years. And they decided to get married. But after 1year,Jennifer wanted to get divorce. She is the victim of cohabitation effect. What is cohabitation effect. Couples who cohabit before marriage tend to be less satisfied with their marriages than couples who do not. These negative outcomes are called cohabitation effect.
And the writer also mentioned The risk lies in cohabitation itself-cohabitation is a problem and has nothing to with individual characteristics like religion, education or politics. The risks of cohabitation might be that couples live together gradually. From dating to sleep over to sleep over a lot and finally cohabit. And the writer described the process as a slope. Most lovers said it just happened bypassing talking about why they want to live together and what it would mean. 
Conclusion
Cohabitation is not the assurance of a happy and wonderful marriage. And it is not a good way for every relationship. It might weaken the faith that marriage is a permanent combination. So, think twice before cohabitation.

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